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• What's the Tallest Mountain in the Solar System? (Mon, May 16, 2022)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Are Chimps Cleaner Than Us? (Sun, May 15, 2022)
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• If You Can Be Disgruntled, Can You Be Gruntled? (Sat, May 14, 2022)
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• How Did Manifest Destiny Shape America? (Fri, May 06, 2022)
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• How Do Coconut Crabs Work? (Thu, May 05, 2022)
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• Is Bugs Bunny a Rabbit or a Hare? (Tue, Apr 26, 2022)
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• Should the U.S. Switch to Permanent Daylight Savings Time? (Mon, Apr 25, 2022)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Does Playing with Toy Guns Lead to Violent Behavior? (Sun, Apr 24, 2022)
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• Holly Frey In Conversation With Seneca Women to Hear Winner: Naibe Reynoso (Sat, Apr 23, 2022)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What's the History of Lemonade? (Sat, Apr 23, 2022)
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• Where Did the Phonetic Alphabet Come From? (Fri, Apr 22, 2022)
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• How Does Baker's Yeast Work? (Thu, Apr 21, 2022)
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• How Did Bessie Coleman Work? (Wed, Apr 20, 2022)
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• Are Humans Really Worse at Smelling than Dogs? (Mon, Apr 18, 2022)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Should You Really Take Fish Oil Pills? (Sun, Apr 17, 2022)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Can Squid 'Speak' With Their Skin? (Sat, Apr 16, 2022)
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• What's the Most Americans Have Paid for Gasoline? (Fri, Apr 15, 2022)
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• How Does Earth's Pulse Work? (Fri, Apr 15, 2022)
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• Why Didn't Russia Sell Alaska to Canada? (Thu, Apr 14, 2022)
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• How Can Hay Fever Cause Food Allergies? (Tue, Apr 12, 2022)
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• How Does Dolores Huerta Work? (Mon, Apr 11, 2022)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Bad Is It to Run Your Car on Empty? (Sun, Apr 10, 2022)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Do Doctors' Biases Affect Health Care? (Sat, Apr 09, 2022)
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• How Does Plutonium Work? (Sat, Apr 09, 2022)
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• Can the U.S. Cut Dependence on Foreign Oil? (Fri, Apr 08, 2022)
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• How Old Are Grocery Store Apples? (Wed, Apr 06, 2022)
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• How Did One Woman Change the FDA's Drug Approval Process? (Tue, Apr 05, 2022)
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• How Does the Museum of Failure Work? (Mon, Apr 04, 2022)
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• Are Wolves Smarter Than Dogs? (Mon, Mar 21, 2022)
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• Why Do Books Smell So Good? (Sun, Mar 20, 2022)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Is Hangry a Real Emotion? (Sat, Mar 19, 2022)
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• What Is the Longest Worm in the World? (Thu, Mar 17, 2022)
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• How Does Liquid Smoke Work? (Wed, Mar 16, 2022)
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• How Do Dollar Stores Make Money? (Mon, Mar 14, 2022)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Yes, Your Dog Wants to Help When You're Upset (Sun, Mar 13, 2022)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What Happens When Hurricanes Hit Volcanoes? (Sat, Mar 12, 2022)
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• Why Do We Have Favorite Colors? (Fri, Mar 11, 2022)
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• Do the North and South Poles Have Time Zones? (Thu, Mar 10, 2022)
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• Do Rabbits Really Go Crazy in March? (Wed, Mar 09, 2022)
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• How Did Curse Tablets Work? (Tue, Mar 08, 2022)
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• How Do Sanctions Work? (Mon, Mar 07, 2022)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Do Nutrients Get into the World's Oceans? (Sun, Mar 06, 2022)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Can You Train a Bee? (Sat, Mar 05, 2022)
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• How Did Anne Bonny, Female Pirate, Work? (Fri, Mar 04, 2022)
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• Why Does the Sun Get Colder Closer to Its Surface? (Thu, Mar 03, 2022)
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• How Did the Black Codes Work? (Wed, Mar 02, 2022)
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• How Do Kodiak Bears Work? (Tue, Mar 01, 2022)
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• How Can Wastewater Help Us Track Coronavirus? (Mon, Feb 28, 2022)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What Did Our Ancestors Really Eat? (Sun, Feb 27, 2022)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Who Does the Real Magic: Magicians, or Assistants? (Sat, Feb 26, 2022)
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• How Did a Civil Rights Photographer Become an FBI Informant? (Thu, Feb 24, 2022)
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• Why Didn't We Evolve to Smell Water? (Wed, Feb 23, 2022)
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• Why Does Preening Help Keep Flamingos Pink? (Tue, Feb 22, 2022)
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• How Much Animal DNA Is in the Air? (Mon, Feb 21, 2022)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Is Head Scratching a Gesture of Thought? (Sun, Feb 20, 2022)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Can We Make Roads Out of Recycled Plastic? (Sat, Feb 19, 2022)
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• Can Winter Athletes Tell Real Snow from Fake Snow? (Fri, Feb 18, 2022)
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• How Did Bass Reeves Work? (Wed, Feb 16, 2022)
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• Muffin, Bagel, Doughnut: What's the Best Choice? (Tue, Feb 15, 2022)
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• How Do Some Squirrels Gain Muscle During Hibernation? (Mon, Feb 14, 2022)
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• Can Different Species of Birds Understand Each Other? (Sun, Feb 13, 2022)
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• What's the History of Toothpaste? (Sat, Feb 12, 2022)
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• Who Was the First Self-Made Woman Millionaire? (Fri, Feb 11, 2022)
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• Why Are Some Scents Soothing? (Thu, Feb 10, 2022)
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• Why Is Point Nemo the World's Spacecraft Graveyard? (Wed, Feb 09, 2022)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What Are Vampire Squid? (Sun, Feb 06, 2022)
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• Why Do Babies' Eyes Sometimes Change Color? (Fri, Feb 04, 2022)
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• How Could NASA's DART Mission Change the Cosmos? (Thu, Feb 03, 2022)
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• Could Earth Gain a New Ocean? (Wed, Feb 02, 2022)
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• Who Profits from Food Delivery Apps? (Tue, Feb 01, 2022)
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• Is Uranium Glass Radioactive? (Mon, Jan 31, 2022)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What Makes Stars Twinkle? (Sun, Jan 30, 2022)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Should You Really Eat Activated Charcoal? (Sat, Jan 29, 2022)
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• How Were COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Released So Quickly? (Fri, Jan 28, 2022)
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• How Did the Little Free Library Movement Start? (Thu, Jan 27, 2022)
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• Do Other Animals Practice Social Distancing? (Wed, Jan 26, 2022)
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• Are Different Types of Salt Really That Different? (Tue, Jan 25, 2022)
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• How Can You Get Paid to Break Into Stuff? (Mon, Jan 24, 2022)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Do Hounds Have Floppy Ears? (Sun, Jan 23, 2022)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Did Victorians Think Green Tea Causes Hallucinations? (Sat, Jan 22, 2022)
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• How Does Iambic Pentameter Work? (Fri, Jan 21, 2022)
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• How Powerful Are Magnetars? (Thu, Jan 20, 2022)
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• Can the Endangered Vaquita Porpoise Be Saved? (Wed, Jan 19, 2022)
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• Can Carrots Really Turn Your Skin Orange? (Tue, Jan 18, 2022)
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• Why Do Fishing Superstitions Prohibit Bananas and Suitcases? (Mon, Jan 17, 2022)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What Is the Museum of Broken Relationships? (Sun, Jan 16, 2022)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Close Are We to Recycling Carbon Dioxide Emissions? (Sat, Jan 15, 2022)
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• Should You Pop Blisters? (Fri, Jan 14, 2022)
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• What Created the Carolina Bays? (Thu, Jan 13, 2022)
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• Did Doctors Really Prescribe Alcohol During Prohibition? (Wed, Jan 12, 2022)
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• How Do Anacondas Work? (Tue, Jan 11, 2022)
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• How Does Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater Work? (Mon, Dec 06, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Who Was the First Fashion Designer? (Sat, Dec 04, 2021)
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• Why Does Eating Meat Consume More Resources Than Eating Plants? (Fri, Dec 03, 2021)
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• What's the Difference Between Dusk and Twilight? (Thu, Dec 02, 2021)
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• How Could CRISPR Improve Agriculture? (Tue, Nov 30, 2021)
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• Do Hand Dryers Really Spread Germs? (Mon, Nov 29, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What Is Red Snow? (Sat, Nov 27, 2021)
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• Have We Found the First Planet Outside the Milky Way? (Fri, Nov 26, 2021)
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• Where Do Baby Vegetables Come From? (Thu, Nov 25, 2021)
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• What Is the Mojave Megaphone? (Wed, Nov 24, 2021)
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• Can Solar Panels Power Cars? (Tue, Nov 23, 2021)
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• Is Going Sockless Unhealthy? (Mon, Nov 22, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Can Robots Help Catch Poachers? (Sun, Nov 21, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Could the Waterbed Make a Comeback? (Sat, Nov 20, 2021)
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• How Do Mink Work? (Fri, Nov 19, 2021)
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• Should You Ditch Your Backup Plans? (Thu, Nov 18, 2021)
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• How Do Fungal Pesticides Work? (Wed, Nov 17, 2021)
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• How Does Crowd Control Work? (Tue, Nov 16, 2021)
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• How Do Anglerfish Work? (Mon, Nov 15, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Can Beaches Be Saved by Adding Sand? (Sun, Nov 14, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Do We Feel Hungry When We're Not? (Sat, Nov 13, 2021)
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• Why Are Death Cap Mushrooms Invading America? (Fri, Nov 12, 2021)
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• Can You Really Shatter Glass with a High Note? (Thu, Nov 11, 2021)
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• Could Thorium Revamp Nuclear Energy? (Wed, Nov 10, 2021)
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• Why Do Flamingos Stand on One Leg? (Tue, Nov 09, 2021)
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• Why Are Some Foods 'Breakfast Foods'? (Mon, Nov 08, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Do Sea Spiders Breathe Through Their Legs? (Sun, Nov 07, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: When Will Arlington Cemetery Run Out of Space? (Sat, Nov 06, 2021)
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• Who's Been Sending NASA Flowers for Thirty Years? (Thu, Nov 04, 2021)
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• How Does the Invasive Joro Spider Work? (Wed, Nov 03, 2021)
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• How Much Starlight Has Been Emitted Since the Beginning of Time? (Tue, Nov 02, 2021)
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• Would We Have Pumpkin Pie If Mastodons Had Survived? (Mon, Nov 01, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What Is Music's 'Word' for Death? (Sun, Oct 31, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Can Copper Create Mummies? (Sat, Oct 30, 2021)
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• Devil's Den: Is Gettysburg Haunted? (Fri, Oct 29, 2021)
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• How Did Benjamin Franklin Help Create the Jersey Devil? (Thu, Oct 28, 2021)
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• Were Witches Really Burned at the Stake in Salem? (Wed, Oct 27, 2021)
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• How Do Fruit Bats Work? (Tue, Oct 26, 2021)
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• Do You Have to Tell Buyers Your House Is Haunted? (Mon, Oct 25, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Do Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Communicate with Us? (Sun, Oct 24, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Can the Fashion Industry Better Serve People with Disabilities? (Sat, Oct 23, 2021)
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• How Did Stegosaurus Work? (Fri, Oct 22, 2021)
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• Why Is Rudeness So Contagious? (Thu, Oct 21, 2021)
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• Do Our Brains Have Fingerprints Too? (Wed, Oct 20, 2021)
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• What Really Happened at the O.K. Corral? (Tue, Oct 19, 2021)
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• How Do Blue-Ringed Octopuses Work? (Mon, Oct 18, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Is Type 2 Diabetes Reversible? (Sun, Oct 17, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Does Microwaved Coffee Taste So Bad? (Sat, Oct 16, 2021)
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• How Do Sea Otters Work? (Thu, Oct 14, 2021)
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• How Does Long COVID Work? (Wed, Oct 13, 2021)
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• Could a Spaceship Ignite an Alien Atmosphere? (Tue, Oct 12, 2021)
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• How Did Nigersaurus Work? (Mon, Oct 11, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Is Life on Earth of Alien Origin? (Sun, Oct 10, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Are We Moving Closer to 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'? (Sat, Oct 09, 2021)
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• How Do Starfish Work? (Thu, Oct 07, 2021)
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• What Is Bubblegum Flavor Anyway? (Wed, Oct 06, 2021)
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• Can Horses Help Humans Heal? (Tue, Oct 05, 2021)
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• What Gets Featured on Blue Highway Signs? (Mon, Oct 04, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Can You Really Catch Up on Sleep? (Sun, Oct 03, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Did Rube Goldberg Work? (Sat, Oct 02, 2021)
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• How Does the Mars Solar Conjunction Affect NASA? (Fri, Oct 01, 2021)
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• Why Do Bats Land Upside Down? (Wed, Sep 29, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Did One Blood Donor Save 2 Million Babies? (Sun, Sep 26, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Does Spicy Food Burn Your Tastebuds? (Sat, Sep 25, 2021)
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• What's Next for Roe v. Wade? (Fri, Sep 24, 2021)
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• How Did an Amateur Design the U.S. Capitol? (Wed, Sep 22, 2021)
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• How Does CRISPR Work? (Tue, Sep 21, 2021)
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• Why Are Siberia's Wildfires So Intense This Year? (Mon, Sep 20, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What Happens to Red Carpet Dresses? (Sun, Sep 19, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Do Turtles Have Shells? (Sat, Sep 18, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Could a Plastic-Eating Enzyme Help Save the Planet? (Sun, Sep 12, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What Can't You Name Your Baby? (Sat, Sep 11, 2021)
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• How Does the Stratosphere Work? (Thu, Sep 09, 2021)
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• Why Do Birds Fly Into Windows? (Tue, Sep 07, 2021)
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• Can You Get a Flu Shot If You Have an Egg Allergy? (Mon, Sep 06, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Does Earth's Crust Have Its Own Tides? (Sun, Sep 05, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Can You Microwave a Steak to Perfection? (Sat, Sep 04, 2021)
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• How Do You Sleep When Sailing 4,000 Miles Solo? (Thu, Sep 02, 2021)
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• What's at the Bottom of the Fosse Dionne Spring? (Tue, Aug 31, 2021)
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• Who Investigates Deaths in Antarctica? (Mon, Aug 30, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Will the Paper of the Future Be Made from Poop? (Sun, Aug 29, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Can You Be Your Own Twin? (Sat, Aug 28, 2021)
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• What's the Difference Between Lox, Gravlax, and Nova Salmon? (Fri, Aug 27, 2021)
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• Why Are Noncompete Agreements So Common? (Thu, Aug 26, 2021)
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• How Do Space Hurricanes Work? (Tue, Aug 24, 2021)
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• How Did the Battle for the 19th Amendment Work? (Mon, Aug 23, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Is Coffee Good or Bad for You? (Sun, Aug 22, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Do Snails Grow Their Shells? (Sat, Aug 21, 2021)
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• How Did Chopsticks Become Such a Popular Eating Utensil? (Fri, Aug 20, 2021)
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• What Trees Have Been to the Moon and Back? (Wed, Aug 18, 2021)
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• How Did Bonnie and Clyde Die? (Tue, Aug 17, 2021)
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• Why Is South Florida Overrun with Green Iguanas? (Mon, Aug 16, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Does Uranus Stink? (Sun, Aug 15, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Is Popping Zits So Satisfying? (Sat, Aug 14, 2021)
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• How Do Broken Bones Heal? (Wed, Aug 11, 2021)
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• What Are the Predictions for Hurricane Season 2021? (Tue, Aug 10, 2021)
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• How Did Two Tortoises Beat Apollo to the Moon? (Mon, Aug 09, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What Was Stephen Hawking's Final Project? (Sun, Aug 08, 2021)
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• How Does Racketeering Work? (Thu, Aug 05, 2021)
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• How Can an Animal Breathe Without Oxygen? (Wed, Aug 04, 2021)
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• Why Are Airbnb, VRBO Fees Skyrocketing? (Tue, Aug 03, 2021)
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• How Do Box Jellyfish Work? (Mon, Aug 02, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What Are the Most-Believed Myths About Our Brains? (Sun, Aug 01, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Do City Birds Benefit from Cigarette Butts? (Sat, Jul 31, 2021)
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• How Do Astronauts Sleep in Space? (Thu, Jul 29, 2021)
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• What Is the World's Largest Bee? (Wed, Jul 28, 2021)
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• How Does Ransomware Work? (Tue, Jul 27, 2021)
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• Why Are Pistachios Sold in Their Shells? (Mon, Jul 26, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Will Ants Rescue Wounded Comrades? (Sun, Jul 25, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Does Chinese Five Spice Work? (Sat, Jul 24, 2021)
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• How Far Can a Plane Glide Without Engines? (Fri, Jul 23, 2021)
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• Why Are We So Obsessed with Owls? (Thu, Jul 22, 2021)
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• Why Is There a Semiconductor Shortage? (Wed, Jul 21, 2021)
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• How Did Earth Gain a New Ocean? (Tue, Jul 20, 2021)
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• How Bad Is America's Infrastructure? (Mon, Jul 19, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Did Nuclear Weapons Testing Create New Minerals? (Sun, Jul 18, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Can Talking About Yourself in the Third Person Make You Feel Better? (Sat, Jul 17, 2021)
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• What Animals Are the Deadliest in the Wild? (Tue, Jul 13, 2021)
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• Is Paul Bunyan Based on a Real Person? (Mon, Jul 12, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Do Happy Cows Really Make Better Milk? (Sun, Jul 11, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Can Your Birth Season Determine Your Allergies? (Sat, Jul 10, 2021)
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• How Do Coronavirus Variants Work? (Wed, Jul 07, 2021)
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• Why Is Pink the World's Oldest Color? (Tue, Jul 06, 2021)
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• Is Drought the New Normal for the Western U.S.? (Mon, Jul 05, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Shouldn't Compressed Air Canisters Be Shaken? (Sun, Jul 04, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Can't I Taste My Tongue? (Sat, Jul 03, 2021)
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• How Did Fannie Lou Hamer Work? (Tue, Jun 29, 2021)
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• How Did Pride Parades Get Their Start? (Mon, Jun 28, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Is Our Tipping System Gratuitous? (Sun, Jun 27, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What Happens to Wine Grape Waste? (Sat, Jun 26, 2021)
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• What's the Deadliest Spider in the World? (Wed, Jun 23, 2021)
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• Why Did England and Spain Go to War Over an Ear? (Tue, Jun 22, 2021)
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• How Does the Summer Solstice Work? (Mon, Jun 21, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Were Fruit Flies the First Animal in Space? (Sun, Jun 20, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Did Juneteenth Get Started? (Sat, Jun 19, 2021)
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• What Happens to Whales When They Die? (Thu, Jun 17, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Is the Human Brain Hardwired for Poetry? (Sun, Jun 13, 2021)
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• Have the Olympic Games Ever Been Canceled? (Mon, Jun 07, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Are So Many People Nearsighted? (Sun, Jun 06, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Could Platypus Milk Fight Antibiotic-Resistant Disease? (Sat, Jun 05, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Can Diabetes Lead to Disordered Eating? (Sun, May 30, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Can a Plant Outsource Photosynthesis? (Sat, May 29, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What Makes Durian Fruit Smell So Bad? (Sun, May 23, 2021)
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• How Have Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders Helped Shape Civil and Workers' Rights? (Mon, May 17, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Is New Laser Technology Discovering Ancient Ruins? (Sun, May 16, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Did Botox Come from Bad Sausages? (Sun, May 09, 2021)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What's the Difference Between Eggs of Different Colors? (Sun, May 02, 2021)
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• Why Was a Doctor Once Ridiculed for Recommending Hand Washing? (Tue, Jun 23, 2020)
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• What Is Commensalism? (Mon, Jun 22, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Is Dry Cleaning Actually Wet? (Sun, Jun 21, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Can't We Breathe Underwater? (Sat, Jun 20, 2020)
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• How Did Juneteenth Get Started? (Fri, Jun 19, 2020)
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• Can You Train Yourself to Become Ambidexterous? (Thu, Jun 18, 2020)
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• What Is Intersectionality? (Wed, Jun 17, 2020)
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• How Do Roly-Poly Bugs Work? (Tue, Jun 16, 2020)
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• What Would It Take to Postpone a Presidential Election? (Mon, Jun 15, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Do We Have Eyebrows? (Sun, Jun 14, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Are There 60 Minutes In An Hour Instead of 100? (Sat, Jun 13, 2020)
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• What Were Jim Crow Laws? (Fri, Jun 12, 2020)
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• When Has a Single Vote Decided an Election? (Thu, Jun 11, 2020)
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• How Were Squeaky Floors Used for Security? (Wed, Jun 10, 2020)
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• Can a Star Survive a Black Hole Encounter? (Tue, Jun 09, 2020)
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• Why Is Tear Gas Especially Dangerous During COVID-19? (Mon, Jun 08, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What Is Russia's 'Dead Hand'? (Sun, Jun 07, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Does TV Resolution Matter? (Sat, Jun 06, 2020)
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• Is It Safe to Swim During the COVID-19 Outbreak? (Fri, Jun 05, 2020)
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• How Did the Mason-Dixon Line Come to Divide the North from the South? (Fri, Jun 05, 2020)
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• How Many Americans Know Someone in Jail or Prison? (Fri, Jun 05, 2020)
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• How Was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Perceived During His Time? (Fri, Jun 05, 2020)
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• What Is the World's Most Dangerous Tree? (Mon, Jun 01, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What's the Most Expensive Book in the World? (Sun, May 31, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Is Our Blood Red? (Sat, May 30, 2020)
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• If You BBC Someone on an Email, Can Other Recipients Find Out? (Fri, May 29, 2020)
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• Can the Wind Knock You Off Your Feet? (Thu, May 28, 2020)
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• Is Shangri-La A Real Place? (Wed, May 27, 2020)
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• What Is NASA's Odor Panel? (Tue, May 26, 2020)
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• Why Do We Observe Memorial Day? (Mon, May 25, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Can You Fix the Shower Going Hot When a Toilet Flushes? (Sun, May 24, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Can Helicopter Blades Look Weird on Video? (Sat, May 23, 2020)
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• Who Was Karl Marx, and What Were His Philosophies? (Fri, May 22, 2020)
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• How Does Uranus Work? (Thu, May 21, 2020)
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• How Do Cuttlefish Work? (Wed, May 20, 2020)
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• How Did a Court Case End Japanese Internment? (Tue, May 19, 2020)
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• How Do Chia Pets Work? (Mon, May 18, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Can't You Tickle Yourself? (Sun, May 17, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Does Anxiety Work? (Sat, May 16, 2020)
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• What Are Antibodies, and Why Are We Testing for Them? (Fri, May 15, 2020)
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• What Is NASA's Astronaut Beach House? (Thu, May 14, 2020)
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• What Were African American Spirituals, and What's Their Musical Legacy? (Wed, May 13, 2020)
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• Why Do Birds Mob? (Tue, May 12, 2020)
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• What Were Samurai and Ninja Really Like? (Mon, May 11, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Can Your Eyes Pop Out Of Your Head When You Sneeze? (Sun, May 10, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Does Night Vision Work? (Sat, May 09, 2020)
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• What Are The World's Biggest, Baddest Jigsaw Puzzles? (Fri, May 08, 2020)
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• How Can You Keep Your Car in Shape During Shelter-in-Place (Thu, May 07, 2020)
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• Could We Be Entering an Era of Commercialized Space Exploration? (Wed, May 06, 2020)
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• Why Is Plankton Our Tiniest Unsung Hero? (Tue, May 05, 2020)
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• What Was New England's Vampire Panic? (Mon, May 04, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Are Some People Immune to Mosquitoes? (Sun, May 03, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Can Animals Predict Natural Disasters? (Sat, May 02, 2020)
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• Why Was the Mad Hatter Mad? (Fri, May 01, 2020)
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• Is the Tasmanian Tiger Really Extinct? (Thu, Apr 30, 2020)
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• How Did Emmett Till's Murder Shake the U.S.? (Wed, Apr 29, 2020)
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• Why Do Pistachios' Color Depend on the Iran Hostage Crisis? (Tue, Apr 28, 2020)
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• How Does Neptune Work? (Mon, Apr 27, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Does Agoraphobia Work? (Sun, Apr 26, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Do Juice Cleanses Actually Work? (Sat, Apr 25, 2020)
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• What Do We Get Wrong About Cleopatra? (Fri, Apr 24, 2020)
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• Why Is the Sky Blue? (Fri, Apr 24, 2020)
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• How Does the New York Times Crossword Puzzle Work? (Wed, Apr 22, 2020)
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• Can a Cell Phone Make a Gas Pump Explode? (Tue, Apr 21, 2020)
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• How Is Our Food Supply Chain Changing? (Mon, Apr 20, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Don't All Skeletons Become Fossils? (Sun, Apr 19, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Can It Be Painful To Bite Aluminum Foil? (Sat, Apr 18, 2020)
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• How Was the Golden Gate Bridge Designed? (Fri, Apr 17, 2020)
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• What's the Difference Between Turtles and Tortoises? (Thu, Apr 16, 2020)
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• Why Do Stores Keep Running Out of Toilet Paper? (Thu, Apr 16, 2020)
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• Is Glass a Liquid or a Solid? (Tue, Apr 14, 2020)
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• How Did Gregor MacGregor Swindle People into Moving to a Country that Didn't Exist? (Mon, Apr 13, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Does 'Power Dressing' Actually Work? (Sun, Apr 12, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Are Some People Afraid of Clowns? (Sat, Apr 11, 2020)
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• Why Is American Money Used Around the World? (Fri, Apr 10, 2020)
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• What's the First Nation with Totally Dark Skies? (Thu, Apr 09, 2020)
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• Why Are We Still Talking About Plato After 2100 Years? (Wed, Apr 08, 2020)
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• Why Is One Manta Ray Neon Pink? (Wed, Apr 08, 2020)
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• How Can You Safely Unpack Your Groceries Amidst COVID-19? (Mon, Apr 06, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Do Fire Extinguishers Work? (Sun, Apr 05, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What the Heck is GDP? (Sat, Apr 04, 2020)
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• Why Was 'The Last Supper' the Masterpiece Leonardo da Vinci Didn't Want to Paint? (Fri, Apr 03, 2020)
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• What Is Entropy? (Thu, Apr 02, 2020)
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• How Do Ventilators Work? (Wed, Apr 01, 2020)
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• How Does Ghee Work? (Tue, Mar 31, 2020)
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• What Famous Places Can You Explore from Home? (Mon, Mar 30, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Do Animals Laugh? (Sun, Mar 29, 2020)
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• How Will a New Solar Orbiter Teach Us About the Sun? (Sat, Mar 28, 2020)
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• How Will Food Banks Meet Demand Related to COVID-19? (Fri, Mar 27, 2020)
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• Why Are Fruit Flies Science Superstars? (Thu, Mar 26, 2020)
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• Can You Start Your Own Bank? (Wed, Mar 25, 2020)
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• Do You Have an Inner Monologue? (Wed, Mar 25, 2020)
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• Why Does the U.S. Sell Soda in Liters but Milk in Gallons? (Mon, Mar 23, 2020)
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• Why Does Hand Washing Beat Hand Sanitizer Hands Down? (Mon, Mar 23, 2020)
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• How Can Social Distancing Save Lives? (Sun, Mar 22, 2020)
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• How Long Can Viruses Last on Surfaces? (Fri, Mar 20, 2020)
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• FunStuff Playlist 03: Do Dogs Use Facial Expressions to 'Talk' to Us? (Thu, Mar 19, 2020)
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• FunStuff Playlist 04: Do Humans and Bananas Really Share Half Their DNA? (Thu, Mar 19, 2020)
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• FunStuff Playlist 05: Why Do We Sing in the Shower? (Thu, Mar 19, 2020)
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• FunStuff Playlist 06: Did Pirates Really Talk Like That? (Thu, Mar 19, 2020)
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• FunStuff Playlist 08: Can Absurdly Big Numbers Be Useful? (Thu, Mar 19, 2020)
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• FunStuff Playlist 02: Why Are Some Words Funny? (Thu, Mar 19, 2020)
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• FunStuff Playlist 01: Why Do Flying Squirrels Glow Hot Pink in UV Light? (Thu, Mar 19, 2020)
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• FunStuff Playlist 10: Will the Paper of the Future Be Made of Poop? (Thu, Mar 19, 2020)
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• FunStuff Playlist 07: Why Do Books Smell So Good? (Thu, Mar 19, 2020)
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• FunStuff Playlist 09: How Did Desi Arnaz Change Television? (Thu, Mar 19, 2020)
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• Were Turtles Once the Size of Cars? (Thu, Mar 19, 2020)
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• Farts Can Be Silent, But Can They Be Deadly? (Wed, Mar 18, 2020)
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• Why Are Four-Leaf Clovers Considered Lucky? (Tue, Mar 17, 2020)
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• Is Old Faithful Becoming Less Faithful? (Tue, Mar 17, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Do Bed Bugs Work? (Sun, Mar 15, 2020)
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• What Is Pi? (Sat, Mar 14, 2020)
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• Why Are We Afraid of Friday the 13th? (Fri, Mar 13, 2020)
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• How Does Saturn Work? (Thu, Mar 12, 2020)
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• Why Do Cars Have Alarms If We Ignore Them? (Wed, Mar 11, 2020)
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• What Else Did Shel Silverstein Write? (Tue, Mar 10, 2020)
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• What Is Coronavirus? (Mon, Mar 09, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Does Jet Lag Work? (Sun, Mar 08, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Can We See the Stuff Astronauts Left on the Moon? (Sat, Mar 07, 2020)
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• Do Other Animals Have Blood Types Too? (Fri, Mar 06, 2020)
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• Why Are Legal Pads Yellow? (Thu, Mar 05, 2020)
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• How Did an Enslaved Man Help Save Colonial Boston from Smallpox? (Wed, Mar 04, 2020)
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• Is There a Best Time of Day for Making Decisions? (Tue, Mar 03, 2020)
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• Could Sonic the Hedgehog Survive His Own Speeds? (Tue, Mar 03, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What Would Space Do to the Human Body? (Sun, Mar 01, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Do We Get Brain Freeze? (Sat, Feb 29, 2020)
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• Who Put the Baby in King Cake? (Fri, Feb 28, 2020)
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• Could We Turn Air Pollution Into Ink? (Thu, Feb 27, 2020)
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• What Was the First Cat in Space? (Wed, Feb 26, 2020)
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• Can You Put Emoji on License Plates? (Tue, Feb 25, 2020)
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• Why Is Black History Month During February? (Mon, Feb 24, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Is WiFi Safe? (Sun, Feb 23, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Do Car Horns Work? (Sat, Feb 22, 2020)
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• How Did Indigo Help Start America's Slave Trade? (Fri, Feb 21, 2020)
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• What's the History of the Tooth Fairy? (Thu, Feb 20, 2020)
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• How Do Scientists Know What's Inside Dinosaur Eggs? (Wed, Feb 19, 2020)
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• Are Humans Built to Drink Milk as Adults? (Tue, Feb 18, 2020)
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• What Do People Get Wrong About Rosa Parks? (Mon, Feb 17, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What Is the Birthday Paradox? (Sun, Feb 16, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Do We Get Morning Breath? (Sat, Feb 15, 2020)
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• Does Chocolate Give You a Happy High? (Fri, Feb 14, 2020)
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• Why Do Cats Knead? (Thu, Feb 13, 2020)
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• What Is Balut, and How Do You Eat It? (Wed, Feb 12, 2020)
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• Are Single-Use Plastics Really That Bad? (Tue, Feb 11, 2020)
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• How Did Georgia Tech's Most Famous Student Never Exist? (Mon, Feb 10, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Does Crooke's Radiometer Work? (Sun, Feb 09, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What Is White Noise? (Sat, Feb 08, 2020)
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• How Do Wine, Cars, and Clothes Defy Economics? (Sat, Feb 08, 2020)
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• Why Can a Mongoose Take on a Cobra? (Fri, Feb 07, 2020)
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• Why Are Scientists Asking Hikers to Stop Stacking Rocks? (Wed, Feb 05, 2020)
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• Why Do People Say 'Holy Cow'? (Tue, Feb 04, 2020)
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• Would King Kong Be Considered an Endangered Species? (Mon, Feb 03, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Is a 'Dog Year' Really 7 Years? (Sun, Feb 02, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What is 'Ranch' Flavor? (Sat, Feb 01, 2020)
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• Are Super Bowl Ads Really Worth $30 Million? (Fri, Jan 31, 2020)
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• How Did White House Press Briefings Go From Daily to Done? (Thu, Jan 30, 2020)
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• Could Electric Motors Save Classic Cars? (Wed, Jan 29, 2020)
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• Is There a Science to Aging Beer? (Tue, Jan 28, 2020)
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• What's the Best Kind of Dog Leash? (Mon, Jan 27, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Does Radiation Sickness Work? (Sun, Jan 26, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What Is Fracking? (Sat, Jan 25, 2020)
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• How Do Bengal Cats Work? (Fri, Jan 24, 2020)
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• What's the Difference Between Avenues, Roads, and Boulevards? (Thu, Jan 23, 2020)
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• Why Are Bananas Berries, but Strawberries Aren't? (Wed, Jan 22, 2020)
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• Do Monkeys Lack the Brains or the Vocal Anatomy for Human Speech? (Tue, Jan 21, 2020)
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• Are We Running Out of Cork? (Mon, Jan 20, 2020)
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• Why Is the Exclamation Point on the Rise? (Sun, Jan 19, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Do Microwave Ovens Work? (Sun, Jan 19, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What If the Moon Disappeared? (Sat, Jan 18, 2020)
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• Are Pringles Really Potato Chips? (Thu, Jan 16, 2020)
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• Could There Be a Fifth Fundamental Force? (Wed, Jan 15, 2020)
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• What's the Difference Between Toilet Paper and Facial Tissues? (Tue, Jan 14, 2020)
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• Could Your Next Car Say 'No' to Drunk Driving? (Tue, Jan 14, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Does Your Name Determine Your Future? (Sun, Jan 12, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What Does the Tab on a Rearview Mirror Really Do? (Sat, Jan 11, 2020)
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• How Does the Wayback Machine Work? (Fri, Jan 10, 2020)
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• Can 'Reef DJs' Bring Fish Back to Damaged Reefs? (Thu, Jan 09, 2020)
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• Can Hair Dyes and Straighteners Cause Cancer? (Wed, Jan 08, 2020)
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• What's So American About Apple Pie? (Tue, Jan 07, 2020)
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• Should School Buses Have Seat Belts? (Mon, Jan 06, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Do We Know What Dinosaurs Looked Like? (Sun, Jan 05, 2020)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What Happens When I Have A Hangover? (Sat, Jan 04, 2020)
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• What's the Difference Between Baking Soda and Baking Powder? (Fri, Jan 03, 2020)
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• Was the Grinch Based on Dr. Seuss? (Thu, Jan 02, 2020)
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• What Makes Champagne Champagne? (Wed, Jan 01, 2020)
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• Why Do We Drop a Ball on New Year's Eve? (Tue, Dec 31, 2019)
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• Who Created the Peace Sign (and Why)? (Mon, Dec 30, 2019)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What Is Synesthesia? (Sun, Dec 29, 2019)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What Determines Your Hair Color? (Sat, Dec 28, 2019)
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• How Can Closing Your Door at Night Save Your Life? (Fri, Dec 27, 2019)
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• What's in the Secret Apartment Atop the Eiffel Tower? (Thu, Dec 26, 2019)
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• Why Are We Dreaming of a White Christmas? (Wed, Dec 25, 2019)
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• Why Does Rudolph's Nose Glow Red? (Tue, Dec 24, 2019)
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• Why Do Men Have Nipples? (Mon, Dec 23, 2019)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Did the Brontosaurus Exist? (Sun, Dec 22, 2019)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Do Some Noises Drive Me Crazy? (Sat, Dec 21, 2019)
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• Who Was Physicist Hedwig Kohn? (Fri, Dec 20, 2019)
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• Can Camping Help Us Sleep Better? (Thu, Dec 19, 2019)
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• What Is Florida's Red Tide? (Thu, Dec 19, 2019)
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• Why Doesn't My Sushi Come with Real Wasabi? (Tue, Dec 17, 2019)
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• Why Wasn't 'Groom of the Stool' a Crappy Job? (Mon, Dec 16, 2019)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Are Pop Rocks Dangerous? (Sun, Dec 15, 2019)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Are Humans Still Evolving? (Sat, Dec 14, 2019)
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• When Is Moldy Food Safe to Eat? (Fri, Dec 13, 2019)
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• Why Does Ancient Roman Concrete Outlast Our Own? (Thu, Dec 12, 2019)
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• Why Do People Still Use Fax Machines? (Wed, Dec 11, 2019)
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• How Did a Comma Decide a Court Case? (Tue, Dec 10, 2019)
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• Why Do Noises Other People Make Seem Louder Than Our Own? (Tue, Dec 10, 2019)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Long Would It Take To Walk Around The World? (Sun, Dec 08, 2019)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Does the Human Body Really Replace Itself Every 7 Years? (Sat, Dec 07, 2019)
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• Why Are Macadamia Nuts So Expensive? (Fri, Dec 06, 2019)
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• Why Do Bees Beard? (Thu, Dec 05, 2019)
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• How Can a Sea Slug Use Solar Power? (Wed, Dec 04, 2019)
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• Will There Always Be a North Star? (Tue, Dec 03, 2019)
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• How Did a Mad King Design Disney's Castle? (Mon, Dec 02, 2019)
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• Do You Or Your Dishwasher Get Dishes Cleaner? (Fri, Nov 29, 2019)
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• How Does Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Work? (Thu, Nov 28, 2019)
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• Would Turkey Be So Popular Without Thanksgiving? (Wed, Nov 27, 2019)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Dirty Is Soap? (Tue, Nov 26, 2019)
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• Do Dogs Have Belly Buttons? (Tue, Nov 26, 2019)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Are Plants Conscious? (Tue, Nov 26, 2019)
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• How Did Turducken Become a Thing? (Mon, Nov 25, 2019)
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• Can Your Brain Get Tired Like Your Muscles Do? (Fri, Nov 22, 2019)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why is Bird Poop White? (Fri, Nov 22, 2019)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Will Soda Really Ruin My Teeth? (Thu, Nov 21, 2019)
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• How Did the Ancient Land Blob Called Gondwana Become Today's Southern Continents? (Thu, Nov 21, 2019)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Does Sleepwalking Work? (Wed, Nov 20, 2019)
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• Why Don't Evergreen Trees Lose Their Needles? (Wed, Nov 20, 2019)
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• Do Humans and Bananas Really Share Half Their DNA? (Tue, Nov 19, 2019)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Do Dogs Yawn? (Tue, Nov 19, 2019)
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• BrainStuff Classic: What Creates the Northern Lights? (Mon, Nov 18, 2019)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Do I Need a Passport to Travel? (Fri, Nov 15, 2019)
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• Can 'Hypoallergenic' Dogs Still Trigger Allergies? (Fri, Nov 15, 2019)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Are Less Experienced People More Confident? (Thu, Nov 14, 2019)
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• Could We Recycle Excess Subway Heat? (Thu, Nov 14, 2019)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Is Bacon Considered a Breakfast Food? (Thu, Nov 14, 2019)
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• Can We Win the War on Cockroaches? (Wed, Nov 13, 2019)
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• How Do Wolverines Work? (Tue, Nov 12, 2019)
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• Why Should You Stop Raking Fall Leaves? (Tue, Nov 12, 2019)
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• What's the Difference Between Hornets and Wasps? (Fri, Nov 08, 2019)
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• How Can a Hen Turn into a Rooster? (Thu, Nov 07, 2019)
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• How Could Artificial Glaciers Hydrate the Himalayas? (Wed, Nov 06, 2019)
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• What's the Science Behind Applause? (Tue, Nov 05, 2019)
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• Did Humans Evolve To Be Superstitious? (Fri, Nov 01, 2019)
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• What's Happening During A Near-Death Experience? (Tue, Oct 29, 2019)
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• What Is the Legend of the Hawaiian Night Marchers? (Mon, Oct 28, 2019)
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• Can We 3-D Print Meat in Space? (Fri, Oct 25, 2019)
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• How Do Sea Urchins Work? (Thu, Oct 24, 2019)
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• How Does Venus Work? (Wed, Oct 23, 2019)
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• How Do Ecosystems Work? (Tue, Oct 22, 2019)
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• Were the Dyatlov Pass Hikers Murdered? (Fri, Oct 18, 2019)
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• How Does Photosynthesis Power Life on Earth? (Thu, Oct 17, 2019)
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• Can Red Flag Laws Help Prevent Mass Shootings? (Wed, Oct 16, 2019)
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• How Can 3-D Printing Help Save Animals? (Tue, Oct 15, 2019)
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• Why Are Some Americans Cancelling Columbus Day? (Mon, Oct 14, 2019)
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• Does Our Solar System Contain a Primordial Black Hole? (Fri, Oct 11, 2019)
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• How Did the Shar-Pei Get Its Wrinkles? (Thu, Oct 10, 2019)
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• How Did Bobcats Come Back from the Brink? (Tue, Oct 08, 2019)
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• How Can Gingko Leaves Help Track Climate Change? (Thu, Sep 19, 2019)
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• Why Is Declawing Cats Controversial? (Thu, Sep 12, 2019)
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• Why Is There a Rhino-Shaped Cave in Washington State? (Thu, Aug 15, 2019)
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• Why Does America Use Fahrenheit Instead of Celsius? (Tue, Aug 06, 2019)
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• What Is the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon? (Fri, Aug 02, 2019)
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• Could Frozen Zoo DNA Stave Off Species' Extinction? (Thu, Aug 01, 2019)
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• Should You Rent Grass-Mowing Goats? (Thu, Jul 25, 2019)
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• How Does Henry Ford's Feud with the Dodge Brothers Affect Businesses Today? (Tue, May 14, 2019)
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• What Happened at America's Secret Atomic City? (Fri, May 10, 2019)
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• What Does the Word 'Caucasian' Really Mean? (Tue, May 07, 2019)
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• How Do Paleoartists Create Dinosaur Drawings? (Tue, Apr 16, 2019)
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• What If the Meteor that Helped Wipe out the Dinosaurs Had Missed Earth? (Thu, Apr 11, 2019)
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• Are Windowless Airplanes the Future of Flight? (Wed, Apr 10, 2019)
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• Can a Medicine's Inactive Ingredients Be Harmful? (Tue, Apr 09, 2019)
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• How Are Airlines Cracking Down on Emotional Support Animals? (Mon, Mar 11, 2019)
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• How Has the HANS Device Improved Car Racing? (Fri, Mar 01, 2019)
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• Why Do Flying Squirrels Glow Hot Pink in UV Light? (Wed, Feb 27, 2019)
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• Why Isn't Arkansas Pronounced 'Ar-Kansas'? (Mon, Feb 25, 2019)
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• What's Really Happening on Plum Island? (Thu, Feb 21, 2019)
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• How Does a 500-Year Experiment Work? (Wed, Feb 20, 2019)
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• What Did the Opportunity Rover Teach Us? (Tue, Feb 19, 2019)
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• Was Earth's Oldest Rock Found on the Moon? (Fri, Feb 15, 2019)
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• Could Genetics Grow a Square Tomato? (Thu, Feb 14, 2019)
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• Why a Gaggle of Geese? Where Do Collective Nouns Come From? (Wed, Feb 13, 2019)
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• Why Are Suburbs So Unwalkable? (Fri, Feb 08, 2019)
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• What's Up with the New 'Tesla Tower'? (Thu, Feb 07, 2019)
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• Why Are Whales Big (But Not Bigger)? (Wed, Feb 06, 2019)
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• Is Quinoa Unhealthy For Its Producers? (Tue, Feb 05, 2019)
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• Are Electric Cars or Gasoline-Powered Cars Faster? (Mon, Feb 04, 2019)
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• Why Are Peat Bogs So Good at Preserving Human Remains? (Fri, Feb 01, 2019)
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• Why Do Coffee Drinks Often Have Italian Names? (Thu, Jan 24, 2019)
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• Are the Dare Stones Forgeries or the Key to the Roanoke Mystery? (Mon, Jan 21, 2019)
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• Could a Vaccine Help Save Honey Bees? (Fri, Jan 18, 2019)
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• How Did the 'Green Book' Change Life for Black Travelers? (Thu, Jan 17, 2019)
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• What's the Biggest Building on Earth? (Tue, Jan 15, 2019)
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• What's the History of Nail Polish? (Thu, Jan 10, 2019)
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• Why Do Scorpions Glow Under Black Light? (Tue, Jan 08, 2019)
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• Skim Versus Whole Milk: Which Spoils Faster? (Mon, Jan 07, 2019)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Does Gasoline Smell So Good? (Sun, Jan 06, 2019)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Does Eating Before Bed Give You Nightmares? (Sat, Jan 05, 2019)
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• How Do Cold-Blooded Animals Survive the Winter? (Thu, Jan 03, 2019)
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• Are Restaurants' Michelin Stars Related to Michelin Tires? (Wed, Jan 02, 2019)
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• Why Does Helium Make Your Voice Squeaky? (Tue, Jan 01, 2019)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Don't Humans Have Tails? (Sun, Dec 30, 2018)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Is There A Noise Loud Enough To Kill You? (Sat, Dec 29, 2018)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Do Accents Work? (Sat, Dec 22, 2018)
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• BrainStuff Classics: What Is The Oldest Living Thing? (Sun, Dec 16, 2018)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Do People Go Bald? (Sun, Dec 09, 2018)
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• BrainStuff Classics: Why Do You Hate the Sound of Your Own Voice? (Sat, Dec 08, 2018)
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• Why Did London Once Have a Train for the Dead? (Wed, Nov 28, 2018)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Does Saliva Work? (Sun, Nov 25, 2018)
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• BrainStuff Classics: How Does LASIK Work? (Sun, Nov 18, 2018)
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• How Did a Family Feud Spawn Adidas and Puma? (Sun, Nov 04, 2018)
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• How Can the Fashion Industry Better Serve People with Disabilities? (Tue, Jun 26, 2018)
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• Is Type 2 Diabetes Reversible? (Mon, Jun 25, 2018)
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• What Is Music's 'Word' for Death? (Fri, Jun 22, 2018)
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• Can Copper Create Mummies? (Thu, Jun 21, 2018)
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• Do Dogs Use Facial Expressions to Communicate with Us? (Wed, Jun 20, 2018)
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• Is Life on Earth of Alien Origin? (Tue, Jun 19, 2018)
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• Is Cockroach Milk the Next Big Thing? (Mon, Jun 18, 2018)
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• Are We Moving Closer to 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'? (Fri, Jun 15, 2018)
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• Why Does Microwaved Coffee Taste So Bad? (Thu, Jun 14, 2018)
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• The Man Behind Rube Goldberg Machines (Wed, Jun 13, 2018)
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• Can You Really Catch Up on Sleep? (Tue, Jun 12, 2018)
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• How Do Sea Spiders Breathe Through Their Legs? (Mon, Jun 11, 2018)
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• How One Blood Donor Saved Over 2 Million Babies (Fri, Jun 08, 2018)
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• Does Spicy Food Burn Your Tastebuds? (Thu, Jun 07, 2018)
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• Could a Plastic-Eating Enzyme Help Save the Planet? (Wed, Jun 06, 2018)
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• What Can't You Name Your Baby? (Tue, Jun 05, 2018)
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• What Happens to Red Carpet Dresses? (Mon, Jun 04, 2018)
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• Will the Paper of the Future Be Made from Poop? (Fri, Jun 01, 2018)
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• Does Earth's Crust Have Its Own Tides? (Thu, May 31, 2018)
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• How Can You Be Your Own Twin? (Wed, May 30, 2018)
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• Can You Microwave a Steak to Perfection? (Tue, May 29, 2018)
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• Why Do Turtles Have Shells? (Mon, May 28, 2018)
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• Why Does Uranus Stink? (Fri, May 25, 2018)
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• Is Coffee Good or Bad for You? (Thu, May 24, 2018)
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• How Do Snails Grow Their Shells? (Wed, May 23, 2018)
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• What Was Stephen Hawking's Final Project? (Tue, May 22, 2018)
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• Why Is Popping Zits So Satisfying? (Mon, May 21, 2018)
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• Can We Save the Moai? (Fri, May 18, 2018)
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• Should Airplanes Have Shoulder Seat Belts? (Thu, May 17, 2018)
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• How Easy Is It to Immigrate to the U.S.? (Wed, May 16, 2018)
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• What Are the Most-Believed Myths About Our Brains? (Tue, May 15, 2018)
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• City Birds Use Cigarette Butts as Bug Repellent (Mon, May 14, 2018)
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• How Do We Define 'Suspicious Behavior' Without Bias? (Fri, May 11, 2018)
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• Will Ants Rescue Wounded Comrades? (Thu, May 10, 2018)
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• What Is Red Snow? (Wed, May 09, 2018)
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• What Is Chinese Five Spice? (Tue, May 08, 2018)
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• What's the Happiest Country in the World? (Mon, May 07, 2018)
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• What's Chocolate's Carbon Footprint? (Fri, May 04, 2018)
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• Can a New Egyptian Dinosaur Fossil Explain How the Continents Formed? (Thu, May 03, 2018)
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• How Nuclear Weapons Testing Created New Minerals (Wed, May 02, 2018)
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• Can Talking About Yourself in the Third Person Make You Feel Better? (Tue, May 01, 2018)
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• Do Happy Cows Really Make Better Milk? (Mon, Apr 30, 2018)
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• How Can Your Birth Season Determine Your Allergies? (Fri, Apr 27, 2018)
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• Why Shouldn't Compressed Air Canisters Be Shaken? (Thu, Apr 26, 2018)
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• Why Can't I Taste My Tongue? (Wed, Apr 25, 2018)
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• What Was the First Killer Robot? (Tue, Apr 24, 2018)
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• Is Our Tipping System Gratuitous? (Mon, Apr 23, 2018)
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• Why Were Fruit Flies the First Animal in Space? (Fri, Apr 20, 2018)
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• Did an 19th-Century Man Predict Your Death? (Thu, Apr 19, 2018)
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• Is the Human Brain Hardwired for Poetry? (Wed, Apr 18, 2018)
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• What Happens to Wine Grape Waste? (Tue, Apr 17, 2018)
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• Why Are So Many People Nearsighted? (Mon, Apr 16, 2018)
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• How Can a Plant Outsource Photosynthesis? (Fri, Apr 13, 2018)
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• How Much Electricity Can Urine Provide? (Thu, Apr 12, 2018)
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• Could Platypus Milk Fight Antibiotic-Resistant Disease? (Wed, Apr 11, 2018)
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• Does Diabetes Lead to Disordered Eating? (Tue, Apr 10, 2018)
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• What Makes Durian Fruit Smell So Bad? (Mon, Apr 09, 2018)
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• Is There a Gene for Infidelity? (Fri, Apr 06, 2018)
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• How Much Salt Is Too Much? (Thu, Apr 05, 2018)
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• How Is New Laser Technology Discovering Ancient Ruins? (Wed, Apr 04, 2018)
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• Is Prozac Endangering Crabs' Survival? (Tue, Apr 03, 2018)
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• Botox Exists Thanks to Bad Sausages (Mon, Apr 02, 2018)
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• Can Your Face's Temperature Reveal Your Mood? (Fri, Mar 30, 2018)
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• What's the Difference Between Eggs of Different Colors? (Thu, Mar 29, 2018)
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• What's the Most Dangerous Air Pollution? (Wed, Mar 28, 2018)
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• What If Cockroaches Went Extinct? (Tue, Mar 27, 2018)
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• How Did Spring Break Get Its Start? (Mon, Mar 26, 2018)
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• Can Losing Sleep Make You Gain Weight? (Fri, Mar 23, 2018)
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• What Happens to the Unclaimed Dead? (Thu, Mar 22, 2018)
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• Why Are the Oceans Salty? (Wed, Mar 21, 2018)
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• Could Technology Replace Animal Testing? (Tue, Mar 20, 2018)
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• How Can We Recycle More, and Smarter? (Mon, Mar 19, 2018)
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• What Can We Learn from Fish about Walking? (Fri, Mar 16, 2018)
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• Does Technology Make Us Worse Drivers? (Thu, Mar 15, 2018)
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• How Do Boogers Form? (Wed, Mar 14, 2018)
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• Why Are Mass Shootings Happening in U.S. Schools? (Tue, Mar 13, 2018)
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• Is Room-Temperature Pizza Safe to Eat? (Mon, Mar 12, 2018)
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• Is There a Better Alternative to Cash Bail? (Fri, Mar 09, 2018)
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• Cuttlefish Camouflage Is an Energy-Efficient Superpower (Thu, Mar 08, 2018)
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• Where Did Middle Names Come From? (Wed, Mar 07, 2018)
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• Why Are Stars and Planets Nearly Spherical? (Tue, Mar 06, 2018)
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• Do Female Praying Mantises Really Decapitate Mates? (Tue, Mar 06, 2018)
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• Why Do Humans Dream? (Fri, Mar 02, 2018)
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• Does Hot Yoga Need to Be So Hot? (Fri, Mar 02, 2018)
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• Could Humans Control Volcanic Eruptions? (Thu, Mar 01, 2018)
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• Sea Turtles Are Hatching Up to 99 Percent Female (Tue, Feb 27, 2018)
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• Are We Getting Lonelier? (Mon, Feb 26, 2018)
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• Could Human Waste Feed Astronauts? (Fri, Feb 23, 2018)
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• Can Autonomous Vehicles Break the Speed Limit? (Thu, Feb 22, 2018)
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• An Ice Cream that Doesn't Melt (Wed, Feb 21, 2018)
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• Can Used Books Spread Germs? (Wed, Feb 21, 2018)
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• Did Velociraptors Really Hunt in Packs? (Mon, Feb 19, 2018)
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• How Can Technology Help Stop Rhino Poachers? (Fri, Feb 16, 2018)
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• Can Magic Mushrooms Help Stop Depression? (Fri, Feb 16, 2018)
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• Can You Be Addicted to Love? (Thu, Feb 15, 2018)
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• Do Automatic Toilets Waste Water? (Tue, Feb 13, 2018)
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• What Happens to Mardi Gras Beads? (Mon, Feb 12, 2018)
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• Can People Be Allergic to Water? (Fri, Feb 09, 2018)
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• How Much of the Internet Is Underwater? (Thu, Feb 08, 2018)
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• Are We in an Insect Armageddon? (Thu, Feb 08, 2018)
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• What on Earth Are Skyquakes? (Tue, Feb 06, 2018)
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• Do Vegetarians' Farts Smell Worse? (Mon, Feb 05, 2018)
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• Are Wine Glasses Getting Bigger? (Fri, Feb 02, 2018)
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• Should You Give Cats Milk? (Thu, Feb 01, 2018)
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• Which States Get the Most Money from the Federal Government? (Wed, Jan 31, 2018)
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• How Do Astronauts React to Lunar Landing Conspiracy Theories? (Tue, Jan 30, 2018)
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• Could Drones Replace News Helicopters? (Mon, Jan 29, 2018)
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• Do Some Fabrics Make Body Odor Worse? (Fri, Jan 26, 2018)
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• What Is the 25th Amendment? (Thu, Jan 25, 2018)
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• How Did a Parisian Lemonade Craze Fight the Plague? (Wed, Jan 24, 2018)
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• Could Colonists Dig Up Ice on Mars? (Wed, Jan 24, 2018)
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• Can the Speed of Video Make Us Look More Innocent or Guilty? (Mon, Jan 22, 2018)
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• What Animal Has the Best Echolocation Abilities? (Fri, Jan 19, 2018)
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• How Does Anxiety Cause Underarm Sweat? (Thu, Jan 18, 2018)
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• What Do (and Don't) We Know About the Pentagon's UFO Program? (Thu, Jan 18, 2018)
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• How Green Is Your Favorite Superhero? (Tue, Jan 16, 2018)
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• Why Doesn't Airline Food Taste Good? (Mon, Jan 15, 2018)
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• What Does Self-Defense Insurance Protect Gun Owners Against? (Fri, Jan 12, 2018)
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• Could You Legally Bury Someone in Your Backyard? (Fri, Jan 12, 2018)
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• Can Bats Jam Each Other's Sonar? (Wed, Jan 10, 2018)
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• What Tech Will Replace the Smartphone? (Tue, Jan 09, 2018)
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• Did the Genes for Light Skin Colors Evolve in Europe? (Mon, Jan 08, 2018)
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• How Much Can Ice Tell Us About Climate Change? (Fri, Jan 05, 2018)
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• Why Are Teens Cyberbullying Themselves? (Thu, Jan 04, 2018)
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• Could Some Microbes Live on Air Alone? (Wed, Jan 03, 2018)
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• How Similar Is the Opioid Epidemic to the Crack Epidemic? (Tue, Jan 02, 2018)
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• Why Are Resolutions So Easy to Break? (Mon, Jan 01, 2018)
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• Should Amazon Be Considered a Monopoly? (Fri, Dec 29, 2017)
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• Could This Newly Discovered Planet Harbor Life? (Thu, Dec 28, 2017)
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• How Long Have We Been Keeping Dogs on Leashes? (Wed, Dec 27, 2017)
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• How Much Cardboard Does Online Shipping Use? (Tue, Dec 26, 2017)
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• The Tale of the Christmas Truce (Mon, Dec 25, 2017)
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• What Can a Cache of Pterosaur Eggs Teach Us? (Fri, Dec 22, 2017)
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• Could You Outrun a Volcano? (Thu, Dec 21, 2017)
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• Will Bitcoin Remain the Biggest Cryptocurrency? (Wed, Dec 20, 2017)
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• Is There a Real Witches' Curse in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'? (Tue, Dec 19, 2017)
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• There's Another Reason to Not Eat Raw Cookie Dough (Mon, Dec 18, 2017)
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• Why Can't Some People Sleep Without a Fan? (Fri, Dec 15, 2017)
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• Why Do People Get Adult-Onset Food Allergies? (Thu, Dec 14, 2017)
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• Do We Need to Redefine the Four Seasons? (Wed, Dec 13, 2017)
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• Did Giant Crabs Eat Amelia Earhart? (Tue, Dec 12, 2017)
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• How Much Does Getting Stuck in Traffic Cost Us? (Mon, Dec 11, 2017)
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• How Fast Can We Take a Picture of the Entire Sky? (Fri, Dec 08, 2017)
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• Why Do We Find Symmetry So Pleasing? (Thu, Dec 07, 2017)
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• How Does Salt Prevent Food Spoilage? (Wed, Dec 06, 2017)
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• Do Monkeys Have Superstitions? (Tue, Dec 05, 2017)
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• What Is (and Isn't) Terrorism? (Mon, Dec 04, 2017)
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• Why Are Leaf Blowers So Irritating? (Fri, Dec 01, 2017)
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• Pretending To Be Batman Helps Kids Focus (Thu, Nov 30, 2017)
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• Tips For Staying Safe In A Mass Shooting (Wed, Nov 29, 2017)
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• Jellyfish Are Brainless, But Still Sleepy (Mon, Nov 27, 2017)
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• What's a Bump Fire Stock Do To A Gun? (Fri, Nov 24, 2017)
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• The Origins of Boston and New York’s Accents (Thu, Nov 23, 2017)
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• Can You Pass A Drug Test With Someone Else's Urine? (Fri, Nov 17, 2017)
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• How Do Squirrels Organize Their Nuts? (Fri, Nov 17, 2017)
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• The Number Zero Might Be Older Than We Thought (Fri, Nov 17, 2017)
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• Albums Aren't Dead (Thu, Nov 16, 2017)
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• Great Archaic Ways To Insult Someone (Wed, Nov 15, 2017)
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• Wolves Are Smarter Than Dogs? (Wed, Nov 15, 2017)
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• What can we learn about ourselves from epic space missions? (Tue, Nov 14, 2017)
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• Less people are killed by lightning every year (Mon, Nov 13, 2017)
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• Why Do Balloons Stick To Our Hair? (Fri, Nov 10, 2017)
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• Neanderthals Used Glue (Thu, Nov 09, 2017)
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• Getting a Doctorate Can Affect Your Mental Health (Wed, Nov 08, 2017)
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• Why is the Caspian Sea Evaporating? (Wed, Nov 01, 2017)
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• There Was a Brutal Prehistoric "Hell Ant" (Tue, Oct 31, 2017)
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• Which Computer Keys Wear Out First? (Tue, Oct 31, 2017)
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• Ruined City Under Tunisia's Waters (Mon, Oct 30, 2017)
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• What Do Hurricane Categories Mean? (Mon, Oct 30, 2017)
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• Why Is a Brain-Shaped Blob In Canada? (Fri, Oct 27, 2017)
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• What's the Best Way To Park? (Fri, Oct 27, 2017)
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• Orange Peels Can Revive Landscapes (Thu, Oct 26, 2017)
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• Voyager 1 is Traveling Through Interstellar Space (Thu, Oct 26, 2017)
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• How Do Researchers Preserve Smells? (Wed, Oct 25, 2017)
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• How Did Plesiosaurs Use Their Flippers to Swim? (Tue, Oct 24, 2017)
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• The Mysteries Behind Abandoned Ships (Mon, Oct 23, 2017)
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• Floating Fire Ant Rafts Are Both Dangerous and Cool (Fri, Oct 20, 2017)
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• Why Did The T. Rex Have Tiny Little Arms? (Thu, Oct 19, 2017)
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• Is Not Having A Job Better Than A Bad Job? (Wed, Oct 18, 2017)
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• Do We Need Treatment Centers For Internet Addiction? (Tue, Oct 17, 2017)
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• How Did a Dinosaur Killing Asteroid Change The Environment? (Mon, Oct 16, 2017)
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• When Can You Use The Emergency Lane? (Fri, Oct 13, 2017)
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• Do People Walk In Predictable Paths? (Thu, Oct 12, 2017)
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• How 'Fido' Became The Name For A Dog (Wed, Oct 11, 2017)
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• How Did The Grandfather Clock Get Its Name? (Tue, Oct 10, 2017)
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• When is it Safe to Eat Raw Oysters? (Mon, Oct 09, 2017)
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• How Gut Bacteria Could Become Your Next Sports Drink (Wed, Oct 04, 2017)
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• Einstein's Right Again (Mon, Oct 02, 2017)
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• Defining Personal Space (Wed, Sep 27, 2017)
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• Swift Lizard Evolution (Mon, Sep 25, 2017)
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• Should You Eat A 106-Year-Old Fruitcake? (Wed, Sep 20, 2017)
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• Why Goldfish Make Their Own Alcohol (Mon, Sep 18, 2017)
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• Separating Ninja Facts From Ninja Fiction (Wed, Sep 13, 2017)
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• Can NASA Hit An Asteroid with a DART? (Mon, Sep 11, 2017)
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• How Many People Take and Misuse Prescription Opioids? (Tue, Sep 05, 2017)
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• Why Is Friday the 13th Considered Unlucky? (Wed, Aug 30, 2017)
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• Why Do We Have Eyebrows? (Mon, Aug 28, 2017)
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• Why Can't We Breathe Underwater? (Wed, Aug 23, 2017)
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• Why Are There 60 Minutes In An Hour Instead of 100? (Wed, Aug 16, 2017)
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• Is Dry Cleaning Actually Wet? (Wed, Aug 09, 2017)
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• Why Is It Painful To Bite Aluminum Foil? (Mon, Aug 07, 2017)
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• Are Some People Immune To Mosquitoes? (Wed, Aug 02, 2017)
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• What are Sea Monkeys? (Tue, Aug 01, 2017)
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• What's the Best Place To Sit In A Movie Theater? (Wed, Jul 26, 2017)
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• Why Are You Farting? (Mon, Jul 17, 2017)
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• Where Do Bullets Go When Fired Into The Air? (Wed, Jul 12, 2017)
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• Can Water Go Bad? (Mon, Jul 10, 2017)
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• Why Do People Talk Weird in Old Movies? (Wed, Jul 05, 2017)
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• Why Don't All Skeletons Become Fossils? (Wed, Jun 21, 2017)
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• Does TV Resolution Matter? (Mon, Jun 19, 2017)
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• What's The Most Expensive Book In The World? (Wed, Jun 14, 2017)
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• Did the Brontosaurus Exist? (Thu, Jun 08, 2017)
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• Why is Bird Poop White? (Mon, Jun 05, 2017)
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• How Crowds Can Kill You (Mon, May 29, 2017)
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• What Is The Dwarf Planet Ceres? (Mon, May 15, 2017)
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• Can You Reach The End of a Rainbow? (Mon, May 01, 2017)
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• Is a "Dog Year" Really 7 Years? (Mon, Apr 24, 2017)
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• Why Does The Shower Get Hot When The Toilet Is Flushed? (Mon, Apr 17, 2017)
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• Do Animals Laugh? (Mon, Apr 03, 2017)
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• How Much Does It Cost To Run For President? (Wed, Mar 29, 2017)
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• Can I See the Stuff Astronauts Left On the Moon? (Mon, Mar 27, 2017)
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• Does the Human Body Really Replace Itself Every 7 Years? (Wed, Mar 01, 2017)
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• Why Are There So Many Different Kinds of Milk? (Wed, Feb 22, 2017)
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• Why Is It So Difficult To Chug A Gallon of Milk? (Wed, Feb 08, 2017)
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• How Long Would It Take To Walk Around The World? (Mon, Jan 30, 2017)
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• How Does Crooke's Radiometer Work? (Mon, Jan 23, 2017)
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• Why Is Bacon Considered A Breakfast Food? (Wed, Jan 11, 2017)
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• What Are Brain Orgasms And ASMR Whisperers? (Mon, Jan 09, 2017)
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• The Way We Think About Sugar Is Going To Change (Thu, Jan 05, 2017)
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• How Sonic Booms Work (Wed, Dec 02, 2015)
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• What is the difference between a turbo-charger and a super-charger? (Mon, Oct 26, 2015)
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• How Rearview Mirrors Work (Fri, Oct 23, 2015)
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• How do astronomers measure distance? (Mon, Oct 19, 2015)
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• What will airplanes look like in 2025? (Sat, Oct 17, 2015)
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• How Helium Works (Fri, Oct 09, 2015)
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• How Subprime Loans Work (Wed, Oct 07, 2015)
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• How Air Force One Works (Mon, Sep 28, 2015)
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• Can I see the stuff astronauts left on the moon? (Mon, Sep 07, 2015)
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• How Golf Ball Dimples Work (Fri, Sep 04, 2015)
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• How the Dow Jones Industrial Average Works (Wed, Sep 02, 2015)
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• What's the difference between LPG or natural gas? (Wed, Aug 19, 2015)
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• How can you figure out how far away lightning struck? (Mon, Aug 17, 2015)
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• How do astronauts function in their spacesuits? (Wed, Aug 12, 2015)
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• How do a zebra's stripes act as camouflage? (Mon, Aug 10, 2015)
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• How Do Submarines Work? (Wed, Jul 29, 2015)
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• How Starting A Car in Cold Weather Works (Mon, Jul 27, 2015)
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• Why doesn't paper money disintegrate in the washing machine? (Mon, Jul 20, 2015)
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• What would happen on a carousel moving at the speed of light? (Fri, Jul 17, 2015)
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• How is wire measured? (Mon, Jul 13, 2015)
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• Can water go bad? (Fri, Jul 10, 2015)
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• What do the ul marks on so many products mean? (Wed, Jul 08, 2015)
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• What's the total amount of gold in the world? (Mon, Jul 06, 2015)
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• How can an electric toothbrush recharge its batteries? (Mon, Jun 29, 2015)
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• How Smoke Works (Fri, Jun 26, 2015)
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• How X-Ray Machines Work (Wed, Jun 24, 2015)
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• How Boogers and Mucuous Membranes Work (Mon, Jun 22, 2015)
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• What is the difference between good and bad toy helicopters? (Mon, Jun 15, 2015)
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• What is a decibel, and how is it measured? (Fri, May 22, 2015)
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• Why do the plugs on some appliances have two prongs and others have three? (Wed, May 20, 2015)
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• What do the symbols on the U.S. one-dollar bill mean? (Mon, Apr 20, 2015)
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• How Proton Therapy Works (Wed, Apr 08, 2015)
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• How Flatulence Works (Fri, Mar 06, 2015)
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• How do thirty pounds of air in your tires hold up two tons of car? (Mon, Feb 16, 2015)
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• Why don't they use normal air in race car tires? (Fri, Feb 13, 2015)
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• How does a speedometer in an airplane work? (Fri, Feb 06, 2015)
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• How does an oxygen canister on an airplane work? (Mon, Jan 26, 2015)
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• In baseball, how does a pitcher throw a curveball? (Wed, Jan 21, 2015)
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• How do strokes work? (Fri, Jan 16, 2015)
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• Semi Submarines (Mon, Jan 12, 2015)
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• What's the birthday paradox? (Wed, Dec 31, 2014)
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• How Replacing Toilets Works (Wed, Dec 24, 2014)
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• How High-level Nuclear Waste Works (Fri, Dec 12, 2014)
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• Why can't a couch potato run a marathon? (Wed, Dec 03, 2014)
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• How do polymer crystals work, and why do they absorb so much water? (Fri, Nov 28, 2014)
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• Why is a popsicle called a quiescently frozen confection? (Mon, Nov 24, 2014)
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• Do you have a hidden savant inside your brain? (Fri, Oct 24, 2014)
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• What is a fossil? (Fri, Oct 10, 2014)
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• What is superconductivity? (Wed, Oct 08, 2014)
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• How Color Blindness Works (Wed, Aug 13, 2014)
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• What do those diamond-shaped signs on buildings mean? (Wed, Jul 09, 2014)
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• Should you turn your computer off when it's not in use? (Mon, Jul 07, 2014)
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• How big is the universe? (Fri, Jul 04, 2014)
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• Why does hydrogen peroxide foam when you put it on a cut? (Wed, Jul 02, 2014)
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• Why does my hard drive make that churning sound? (Fri, Jun 20, 2014)
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• What would happen if the polar ice caps melted? (Wed, Jun 04, 2014)
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• How can I recover a deleted file from my computer? (Mon, May 26, 2014)
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• How Light Wave Interference Works (Fri, May 23, 2014)
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• How Phones Work During Power Outages (Wed, May 21, 2014)
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• How Liquid Smoke Works (Mon, May 19, 2014)
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• What Happens to Blood During the Embalming Process? (Mon, May 12, 2014)
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• What is low-power FM (LPFM)? (Wed, Apr 09, 2014)
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• Tiny Houses (Wed, Mar 19, 2014)
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• Could I see a flashlight beam from Earth on the moon? (Mon, Feb 24, 2014)
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• Why do tools have "drop forged" stamped on them? (Fri, Feb 21, 2014)
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• How does the lighter in a barbeque grill work? (Wed, Feb 19, 2014)
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• How can you measure the height of a tall tower? (Mon, Feb 17, 2014)
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• Why does the moon look bigger when it's near the horizon? (Fri, Feb 14, 2014)
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• How do photochromatic lenses work? (Wed, Feb 12, 2014)
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• Why doesn't gasoline burn cleanly? (Sat, Feb 08, 2014)
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• How do jet engines start? (Wed, Feb 05, 2014)
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• Can cans and string really be used like a telephone? (Mon, Feb 03, 2014)
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• What is making my backyard sparkle at night? (Fri, Jan 31, 2014)
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• What is the difference between hardwood and softwood? (Wed, Jan 15, 2014)
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• What are carbide tips? (Wed, Dec 25, 2013)
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• Is it possible to use a leaf blower as a supercharger? (Mon, Dec 23, 2013)
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• Does airing out mattresses outside do any good? (Mon, Dec 16, 2013)
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• How Lava Lamps Work (Fri, Dec 13, 2013)
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• How Dry Cleaning Works (Wed, Dec 11, 2013)
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• How Dehumidifiers Work (Mon, Dec 09, 2013)
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• How Does Yawning Work? (Wed, Nov 27, 2013)
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• How the Nobel Prize Works (Fri, Nov 22, 2013)
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• What constitutes a person's IQ? (Wed, Nov 20, 2013)
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• What type of gas do racecars use? (Wed, Nov 13, 2013)
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• How do you make clear ice cubes? (Wed, Nov 06, 2013)
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• What is the ideal temperature for a refrigerator? (Mon, Oct 28, 2013)
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• Does adding RAM make a computer faster? (Fri, Oct 25, 2013)
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• What does 'octane' mean? (Wed, Oct 23, 2013)
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• How Case Hardening Works (Mon, Oct 21, 2013)
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• Why do batteries die but then come back to life? (Fri, Oct 18, 2013)
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• How the Horizon Works (Fri, Oct 11, 2013)
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• How do